A Japanese man was arrested this morning after a knife attack that injured 13 people, mostly junior and high school students, in a city northeast of Tokyo.
Unemployed Yuta Saito, 27, boarded at least one bus and attacked passengers with a knife before being subdued by a local person and arrested for attempted murder by police, local police spokesman Masaru Morita said.
One of those injured in the attack has wounds that will require several weeks in the hospital, while the others are not seriously injured, local fire department spokesman Shireka Iyoka said.
He said 11 of the injured were junior and high school students.
The attacks occurred in front of Toride Station, in Ibaraki Prefecture, about 40km northeast of Tokyo.
Four of the injured had been stabbed, Kyodo News agency reported. Officials earlier said over a dozen had been stabbed, but Iyoka said he had no specifics of the injuries.
The incident evoked memories of an attack in central Tokyo in 2008. In that attack, which drew national attention for its ferocity, a man slammed a truck into a crowd of people in the Akihabara electronics district and began stabbing passers-by at random.
